It was jus’ before the concert in our parking lot was scheduled to start. I was working for country music station KHIT. My request line flashed in the studio. And as I had always done, I pushed record on the reel-to-reel tape machine as I answered the telephone. On the phone was a voice I recognized right…

Not even two-minutes into my shift and I got one of those telephone calls every reporter has to weary about. It was a man claiming he had been at an accident, trying and save a life, but was unsuccessful. His information seemed credible enough. He said he was on his way from Burning Man and…

We had been in our new home a little more than a year and I felt it was becoming cluttered and in need of some mid-Fall cleaning. I decided to start in the back bedroom that we used as a sort of office. After filling two garbage cans and a large plastic bag, I felt I was…

What is it that our pit bull terrier has against me? In the time that we’ve had her, she has chewed on or swallowed or destroyed several items of mine. The latest in this long line is my favorite hat; a gray Stetson Tuscarora felt topper. I left it sitting on my old kack, jus’…

Yesterday didn’t end until I laid my head on my pillow at eight this morning. In fact I had jus’ laid down when the telephone rang. I’ve learned that when the phone sounds off in the earliest hours of the morning, it’s never some guy saying he’s trying to find my home because he has…

“Looking through this old scrapbook,” Charlie said, “sure brings back memories.” He was sitting in the middle of the room with a large box at his side. Coming through the door was his wife, Maggie, carrying two cups of coffee as Charlie flipped through page after page of old photographs. Suddenly he paused and smiled.…

The echo of the helicopter blades were only a faint memory as the fifteen of us worked deeper into the canyon. It had been less than 10-hours since the three teams had been dropped near the canyons entrance. Slowly we picked our way through the dense vegetation on the ground. We stayed in the lush…

It was about a mile between the apartment I live in on Sutro Street and my workplace, ATC/CitiLift. I walked the distance nearly every morning and evening. One night I was on my way home when a young woman got out of a car and ran up to me, asking for help. She said she…

The day before we buried Dad at Fort Gibson, my step-mom Jere’ took me over to visit with my Aunt Beverly. I hadn’t seen her since 1964 when my Grandma Agnes died.  The last time I had been to her home, the field across the street was completely vacant. I also don’t remember there being…

Sleep wasn’t all that great after work. I ended  laying awake talking to God about my health, then I had to get up early in order to take three of the four dogs to the vet for shots. Right off the bat, Roxy (our pit bull) jerked me off my feet. Luckily I landed in the front…